Improvement in wagon-axles



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Wagon, Axle. No. 108,608. Patented 00. 25,v 18701;"

N. PETERS. PNDTILUTHQGRAPHER. WASHVNGTON, D. C.

WILLIAM A. LEWIS, OF JOLI'ET, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 108,608, dated camber 25, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON AXLES.

The Schedule referred to 'in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. LEWIS, of J oliet, in Will county andState of Illinois, have inventeda new and useful Improvement inWagon-Axles; and '1 do hereby declare the following to be a full,,clear,and

exact description of the same, reference being bad to the annexeddrawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is alongitudinal sectional view, and

. Figure 3, a cross-sectional view.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the axle, which Iwill proceed to describe.

' The axle proper consists of a hollow tube, the ends of which areswaged to a taper, as shown in the drawing, to form, of itself, theaxle, into the ends of which I weld or shrink in a plug, a, with athread on the end for the nut, or the nut 0 may be held by alinch-pin,as shown in the drawing.

at and n are bearings which are slippedon over the axle, and areconstructed of steel or other very hard metal, and are fastened in placeby bolts 4' r passing through, as shown in fig. l.

The bearing m is constructed with a shoulder, s, to hold the hub ofthe'wheel in place.

' The bearings m and n are intended to be replaced 'by new ones wheneverthey get worn, so the axle never gets worn out, and is easily repaired.

In order to hold'the hounds firm on the axle I use a metal saddle, a:,resting on the 'axle a, and held in place by means of the bolt '0, asshown in fig. 3. This fastening is necessary, because it would not do tobolt the wood immediately on continually getting loose. The hounds reston the metal seat between the flanges thereon, to hold it firm,as'shown.

Claims.

tion with the swaged tube-axle a, constructed and operating as setforth.

2. The metal saddle 2:, attached to the axle a by means of the bolto,for the purpose of holding the hound, as shown.

WILLIA-M A. LEWIS.

Witnesses;

THOS. H. HUTCHINS, HENRY Lowe.

the axle, for it would be.

